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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: Reduce looping in the interrupt handler.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:24:23 +0200
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[...]
> Right now I really don't have much more test bandwidth.  So I tried
> for something simple that would address my problem without
> fundamentally changing the already tested logic.

Fair enough.

[...]
> Perhaps we should unconditionally ack everything after changing the 
> interrupt mask  ? If that would prevent races it sounds like a simple
> fix.

I should be able to implement something right this evening, please hold on.

-- 
Ueimor